New Products Mechanical Design Engineer
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own end-to-end mechanical subsystem delivery from concept through production release and field deployment, translating mission requirements into concrete designs, CAD, tolerance stacks, and verification plans. Produce drawings, GD&T, BOMs, and supplier specifications while driving test campaigns to validate structural and mechanism performance against acceptance criteria. Use first-principles analysis and FEA to predict loads and fatigue life, then rapidly prototype in-shop to convert validated designs into producible hardware. Collaborate daily with cross-functional teams to resolve tradeoffs and deliver measurable outcomes like reduced subsystem mass and demonstrated target MTBF. This onsite role at the engineering lab/manufacturing campus requires frequent hands-on build and test work, regular participation in flight-test campaigns, and periodic travel to launch/field sites.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years designing mechanical systems for aerospace, robotics, automotive, or similarly demanding hardware programs
- Direct experience moving hardware from prototype to production
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with composite or metallic structural design and/or precision mechanisms
- Experience providing concrete examples of subsystems owned
- Proficiency in CAD (NX, SolidWorks, or equivalent)
- Proficiency in GD&T
- Proficiency in FEA workflow for structural substantiation
- Familiarity with test methods for fatigue, environmental, and life testing
- Experience producing production drawings
- Experience producing BOMs
- Experience producing supplier specs
- Experience participating in supplier qualification processes
- Experience participating in change-control processes
- Onsite availability at the engineering lab/manufacturing campus
- Willingness to participate in frequent hands-on build and test work
- Willingness to participate in flight-test campaigns
- Willingness to travel periodically to launch/field sites
- Rigorous first-principles problem solving
- Data-driven validation mindset
- Willingness to work at the bench alongside technicians during iterative test cycles
Desired Qualifications
- Python or MATLAB for data analysis
- Experience with bonded composite manufacturing
- Experience with automated layup
- Prior responsibility for structural substantiation or certification artifacts
- Prior work on safety-critical aircraft subsystems
- Patents
- Commercialized products
- Exceptional personal engineering projects demonstrating creativity and craftsmanship
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